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[chickrunfun]

To GooseGrrl:
Oh now you're preaching to the choir on the speckled sussex! We had one, Tippy Hendren (hehe) but she fell ill and we lost her in record time. Found her one day not being her usual Tippy self...and in a week's time she was put to sleep. Still paying off the vets for that. Tell you what, though, Sunday we went for a drive and ended up at Rural King in Crystal River and we almost came home with a Tippy replacement. As well as 2 Khaki Campbell (ducklings) I've wanted ducks for so long it was killing me how cute they were! But we stayed strong. HAHA. I said "no dear" to the speckled sussex and wifey said "no dear" to the ducklings. It's like we're each other's support group cause we're BOTH suckers for babies!
Anyways, glad to meet you, Goose. Names Will.
Post Script:
Do you really have a goose? If so, think you could post a photo? Also, being a English lit and Ed. major ( yes I'm picking your melon ) Why is it choir isn't spelled ch - i - or? Seems to me it should be i before the o r since that's how it sounds don't ya figure? Some spelling make me scratch my top knot...

 

[hbeam21]

I just gave my chickens cold watermelon and they love it. It's starting to get too hot outside. I have them under nice big trees, but it's still hot. Can you give me ideas on how to get them cool? I was thinking about freezing fruit and giving it to them.

 

[poppycock1974]

I just gave my chickens cold watermelon and they love it.  It's starting to get too hot outside.  I have them under nice big trees, but it's still hot.  Can you give me ideas on how to get them cool?  I was thinking about freezing fruit and giving it to them. 

well this doesn't sound delicious but I read that a good treat is scrambling eggs and then freezing them in Muffin tins with a little water to give out on hot days

 

[cmom]

Hey all! Checking in from North Port, Fl! Getting into poultry because of a son who desperately wants to do 4h but isn't old enough yet. Looking at quails, but am lost. Help?

and the Florida thread.

 

[cmom]

I just gave my chickens cold watermelon and they love it. It's starting to get too hot outside. I have them under nice big trees, but it's still hot. Can you give me ideas on how to get them cool? I was thinking about freezing fruit and giving it to them.

I have sprinklers in some of my pens and I put them on for awhile during the day to cool the ground. Each sprinkler will wet 3 pens. The birds all have shade trees and shade/rain tables to get under too. I cleaning out the freezer and giving them some older frozen vegies.

 

[cmom]

To GooseGrrl:
Oh now you're preaching to the choir on the speckled sussex! We had one, Tippy Hendren (hehe) but she fell ill and we lost her in record time. Found her one day not being her usual Tippy self...and in a week's time she was put to sleep. Still paying off the vets for that. Tell you what, though, Sunday we went for a drive and ended up at Rural King in Crystal River and we almost came home with a Tippy replacement. As well as 2 Khaki Campbell (ducklings) I've wanted ducks for so long it was killing me how cute they were! But we stayed strong. HAHA. I said "no dear" to the speckled sussex and wifey said "no dear" to the ducklings. It's like we're each other's support group cause we're BOTH suckers for babies!
Anyways, glad to meet you, Goose. Names Will.
Post Script:
Do you really have a goose? If so, think you could post a photo? Also, being a English lit and Ed. major ( yes I'm picking your melon ) Why is it choir isn't spelled ch - i - or? Seems to me it should be i before the o r since that's how it sounds don't ya figure? Some spelling make me scratch my top knot...

Have you been to our Farm Swap?

 

[chickrunfun]

Have you been to our Farm Swap?

Not yet. I can't drive much account of Rx's make me fuzzy and drives that distance from home like that have to be with the wifey so I don't "drift away" like she calls it. Anyways, we're hoping sometime this summer to be able to make it up that ways on a Saturday stead of Sunday. Maybe even an overnighter. It's so beautiful around there. Shoot, ANYwhere out of town makes me feel better! Tell you what though...Rural King was a pretty cool store. Like a Bass Pro meets Walmart! It had everything and the variety of chicks was impressive

 

[chickrunfun]

I just gave my chickens cold watermelon and they love it. It's starting to get too hot outside. I have them under nice big trees, but it's still hot. Can you give me ideas on how to get them cool? I was thinking about freezing fruit and giving it to them.

I have sprinklers in some of my pens and I put them on for awhile during the day to cool the ground. Each sprinkler will wet 3 pens. The birds all have shade trees and shade/rain tables to get under too. I cleaning out the freezer and giving them some older frozen vegies.

We got a kiddie pool with flat stones in it off the back so the little ones will be less to not be able to get out. Since I hang around the property all day, when I get hot, I figure they might be hot too so I spray the ground here and there with the hose. Jeanie like to get dipped in the pool...just her legs till her belly feather touch the water...for now. I also wet down the mini barns roof. Yea, on the frozen stuff...and ice cubes in the water bowls.

 

[cmom]

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All of my coops have auto waterers. Most of the day they are shaded. It's not bad when you have a few birds to take care of but when you have a lot of birds, it's much more labor intensive. I just moved the older chicks (around 100) to the outer coops with the adult birds and around another 100 of the younger chicks from their brooders to the chick/grow-out coop cleaning out each coop as I went along. This was the major summer clean. It's been hot out too. Yesterday the temp got up to 102 and today it has hit 100. It sure feels like it too. The grass is screaming for some rain. Yesterday we got a wee bit, just enough to make things wet but the sun came out and within a couple of minutes everything was dry again. We just had a cloud come over us.

 

[hbeam21]

I will have to try that sometime. Thank you